A massive earthquake struck the northern Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, triggering fears of tsunami waves from Japan to Canada to Indonesia, officials said. The earthquake was magnitude 8.1, some 600 km northeast of Japan’s main northern island of Hokkaido, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.The area where the quake hit is isolated, with the Russian-administered […]

New Delhi: America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation has sent a communication to India’s Intelligence Bureau warning against an “imminent” terrorist threat, probably in the form of a hijack on US-bound flights from Indian airports. The FBI received an email that is believed to have originated from India, warning of terror attacks. Following the alert that […]

Rajesh Lakhoni, IAS will be the new Commissioner of Chennai Corporation. According to an official release, the services of Mr.Lakhoni, who was hitherto Collector, Theni district are placed at the disposal of the Chennai Corporation for appointment as its Commissioner. He replaces M.P. Vijayakumar, IAS, posted as State Project Director, Sarva Siksha Abhiyan vice T.K. […]

Southern Railway, Chennai is observing a `Vigilance Awareness Week’ from November 6 to 10. In the headquarters here, General Manager Thomas Varghese administered a pledge to eradicate corruption and to bring about transparency in all spheres of activities to workers. Similar pledges were administered in all divisional headquarters. At a seminar organised, Mr. Varghese listed various […]

Chennai, Nov. 8 (PTI): AIADMK presidium chairman and former Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker K Kalimuthu died of a heart attack here today, hospital sources said. He was 64 and is survived by his wife, three sons and two daughters. Kalimuthu had been suffering from heart ailments and was admitted to Apollo hospitals here 10 days […]

Chennai, Nov. 8 (PTI): AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa and the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi have condoled the death of former assembly speaker, K Kalimuthu. Expressing shock over his ‘untimely’ death and terming it as an irrepairable loss to the party, Jayalalithaa announced that her party would observe a three day mourning. Party flags would […]

Washington, Nov. 8 (AP): Democrats won control of the House of Representatives early on Wednesday after a dozen years of Republican rule in a resounding repudiation of a war, a president and a scandal-scarred Congress. “From sea to shining sea, the American people voted for change,” declared Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the hard-charging California Democrat in […]

CHENNAI: Actor R. Sarath Kumar has quit the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in view of his “professional workload.” In a statement here on Monday, Mr. Sarath Kumar said he had tendered his resignation to party general secretary Jayalalithaa since his role as president of the South Indian Artists Association needed an “undivided […]

Ninetyfive per cent of the work relating to the golden quadrilateral will be completed before December-end and the completion of the remaining portion may be delayed by court cases, said Union Minister of Shipping, Road and Highways T. R. Baalu here on Monday. (The golden quadrangle connects all four major metropolitan cities: Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata […]

Deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and two of his co-defendants on Sunday were sentenced to death by a tribunal for their role in the killing of 148 people. Immediately after the sentence, violence broke out in Baghdad’s Sunni-dominated Azamiya district. Defying curfew, thousands of Mr. Hussein’s supporters took to the streets in his hometown Tikrit. […]

Indian Space Research Organisation plans to launch Anusat, the Anna University micro satellite next year on one off its satellite launch vehicles, Dr G. Madhavan Nair, chairman ISRO said on Sunday. Speaking to this newspaper before inaugurating Sathyabhama – ISRO village resource centre at Muttam village in Kanyakumari district, Dr Nair said the ISRO would […]

Chennai: Close on the heels of its success in India, Air Arabia, the first low fares airline in the Middle East and North Africa, has announced expansion of its operations with the launch of Chennai-Thiruvananthapuram service in November and operations to Ahemadabad in March 2007. Air Arabia will now connect six Indian stations to the […]